P&S With No Shutter Lag?

ReginaldSMith · Jun 13, 2018

My glove box camera - a Nikon L20 - gave up the ghost last year. I'd like to find another SLIM, AA battery, P&S, but with very short shutter lag - if such a thing has been made yet? Although I loved the L20, it had like a 1/2 second lag. Annoying. Ideas?

Michael Howard · Jun 13, 2018

I had an Olympus XZ-1 for a while, an excellent camera, that had very short shutter lag. I would imagine the XZ-2 is the same. Can't go wrong with that camera, though the zoom range isn't great.

Edit: It uses a rechargeable battery with a good life, not AAs.

tedr1 · Jun 13, 2018

My experience with Canon P&S indicates most of the lag is in the autofocus system, turn that off and shoot with fixed focus (manual focus) and the lag reduces substantially.

ReginaldSMith · Jun 13, 2018

Thanks guys.
I can't recall now if my old Nikon L20 allowed turning off the AF.

blockend · Jun 14, 2018

The Panasonic GX80/85 is an interchangeable lens digital camera, but it's the size of a P&S, especially with the kit pancake zoom. Camera turn on, focus and shutter are instantaneous, or as fast as any film camera. It's literally point and shoot, which so few compacts really are.

ReginaldSMith · Jun 14, 2018

blockend said:
The Panasonic GX80/85 is an interchangeable lens digital camera, but it's the size of a P&S, especially with the kit pancake zoom. Camera turn on, focus and shutter are instantaneous, or as fast as any film camera. It's literally point and shoot, which so few compacts really are.

Thanks. I am going to look into that. Sounds perfect if it is to too spendy.

blockend · Jun 14, 2018

ReginaldSMith said:
Thanks. I am going to look into that. Sounds perfect if it is to too spendy.

A review. Note, the reviewer was sufficiently impressed he later bought one with his own money! Shown in a later review by same guy:

ReginaldSMith · Jun 14, 2018

Ok, that's (GX85) intriguing for sure, but well north of $500 with that 20mm pancake. I have a boatload of money already in a system camera, the Fuji X-T2, and I don't think I would justify another system camera of that magnitude.

Thanks though. Looks like a swell rig.

Ko.Fe. · Jun 15, 2018

I have Canon Power Shot A1400 HD with x2 AA and OVF. It seems to have next to no delay with static objects.
It cost me 20 CAD.

P&S With No Shutter Lag?

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